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  • noun a person who is skilled at woodcarving

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  • noun makes decorative wooden panels

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Examples

  • In some respects, McIntire as a woodcarver is the Federal American counterpart of St.art England's virtuoso Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) who carved in oak such lasting masterpieces as the choir stalls and organ case for St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

    A Mantel of Greatness and Other Classics 2008

  • Why had Nadine lived in the mean street with the so-called woodcarver and his wife?

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • Franco Casoni, a native of Chiavari and professional woodcarver, in December 2010 published "Le Sedie leggere di Chiavari" The Light Chairs of Chiavari, a 272-page monograph dedicated entirely to Chiavarine chairs.

    Crafting the Resilient Chiavarina Aaron Maines 2012

  • To cap it, on the final page a woodcarver approaches the two, checks to make sure their paint is dry, then tucks them under his arm and walks off.

    2009 April - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • The delicate floral and cornucopia motifs carved on the crest rails of his earlier Federal period sofas and side chairs recall the work of the great woodcarver Samuel McIntyre of Salem, Mass.

    Furniture for a Young Nation Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • To cap it, on the final page a woodcarver approaches the two, checks to make sure their paint is dry, then tucks them under his arm and walks off.

    Another Valient Defense of Science 2009

  • The Noyolas have a letter to the woodcarver from Kahlo, offering him the archive as payment for work he'd done, but the experts say no independent documents link him to Kahlo, and the letter must be fake.

    The Frida Fighters 2010

  • In Gilbert's case, it is Ketut Liyer, a woodcarver and medicine man from Ubud, in Bali, with whom she goes to study.

    Eat, pray, cash in 2010

  • The film studio, which produces exclusively family fare, reached an agreement with Dam Things of Denmark, the family business that produced the dolls designed by Danish woodcarver

    DreamWorks to Produce Film Featuring Troll Dolls 2010

  • The Noyolas say they bought the archive from a lawyer who had acquired it from a woodcarver who worked for Kahlo's husband, Diego Rivera.

    The Frida Fighters 2010

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